Federal screening now flags fraudulent FAFSAs before they reach you. Everything after the score, identity confirmation, verification, conflicting information, professional judgment, still lands on your staff.
applications flagged for V5 identity review in the 2026–27 federal fraud sweep
new reject codes an aid office must resolve by hand before aid can pay
of aid offices report staffing shortages (NASFAA 2025)
A fraud score flags an application. It does not resolve a 74/75 reject, complete an FAA Fraud Override, report a V4/V5 outcome, resolve conflicting information, or work a professional-judgment appeal. Eli's synthetic demo works those downstream queues with staff gates for consequential calls. Here is one, mid-review.
Recompute SAI with documented income loss, then route for a professional-judgment decision.
A scanner tells you an application looks fake. The office still has to work everything that follows: the 74/75 reject, the FAA Fraud Override, V4/V5 reporting, SAP scoring against policy and the federal floor, the professional-judgment cases, the R2T4 returns, the program-review file, and the OIG referral. Eli runs that queue, with staff signing every consequential decision on one audit trail.
Synthetic demonstration. The comparison describes a typical point-tool scope, not every vendor; confirm a specific vendor's current capabilities. Federal fraud-screening and reporting figures from U.S. Department of Education / Federal Student Aid; staffing figures from the NASFAA 2025 Administrative Burden survey. The demo stages field-level actions in a connector simulator or governed file handoff; production system writes require a scoped integration with your team and staff-controlled authorization.